Yarn package and method of forming the same



Jan. 22, 1929.

J. L. BARRY YARN PACKAGE AND METHOD FORMING THE SAME V Filed July l2, 1927 30 ,nverc 702* Patented Jan. 22, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.TOEN L BARRY, OF HINGHVAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T CYNTHIA HILLS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS,- A CORPORATION 0F MASSACHUSETTS.

YARN PACKAGE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME.

Application lcd July 12, 1927. Serial N0. 205,167.

This invention relates to the packaging of yarn, threadl and the like which are commonly retailed in units or skeins of comparatively small quantit The invention is particularly well suited to the packages or skeins of embroidery yarns, mending cotton, and similar materials.

In m Patent No. 1,592,432, dated July 13,

1926, Iliave described a skein of embroidery yarn so arranged that the yarn can be withdrawn from the skein from the inside and at one end thereof, with the skein so arranged that it holds its shape until practically all of the yarn has been withdrawn.

An object of this invention is the provision of a package containing a skein of yarn of this character having provision for holding thel skein against displacement when the yarn is with-drawn from the end of the skein.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a package adapted to hold a plurality of skeins of yarn, which may be of different colors, with the inner ends of the yarns of the skeins exposed in position to be grasped and withdrawn from the skeins, the package having means to grip each skein and to hold it against withdrawal from the package when the yarn is withdrawn.

A further object is the provision of a package in the form of a card having means engageable with a skein of yarn to hold the skein against displacement on the card when the yarn is withdrawn from the skein.

A yet further object is a method of illing the package with skeins of yarn.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a package embodyin this invention.

4ig. 2 is a side view of the package of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a section taken along line 3--3 of Fig. l.

Fig. 4 is a perspective sectional detail illustrating the manner in which the tabs of the card grip a skein of yarn.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a card for holding A a plurality of skeins of yarn.

Fig. Gis a perspective view of a device used in connection with filling the card of Fig. 5 with skeins of yarn.

Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional view of the card fllin device taken along line 7-7 of Fig. 6 an in addition,showing a card in position to be operated upon.

F iff. 8 is a view taken in the same location as Flg. 7 but showin the tabs of the card raised to receive the s eins of yarn.

Fig. 9 is a section along line 9-9 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 7 but illustrating the filled card in a partially withdrawn position.

The package herein shown is adapted to hold a plurality of skeins 10 of arn which are made in roll form as described in my above patent and have the inner ends 12 of the yarn extended from the ends of the skeins. The skeins are adapted to be secured to opposite ends of a rectangular card 14 of press oard or slmilar material, which card is adapted to be "folded back upon itself along the line 16 so that the skeins are disposed on opposite sides of the card as illustrated in Fi 2 and 3.

ach skein is held on the card b two spaced pairs of cooperating tabs 18,eacli pair being arranged in spaced edgewise relation and adapted to partially encircle and grip the skeins at the ends thereof. The tabs are formed in the card by unching two transverse sets of longitudinally aligned and transversely spaced circular holes 2O in each end of the card so as to leave the material of the card therebetween to form the tabsl8. The card is slit along the line 22 close to the bottom edges of the holes to intersect the holes slightly above their lower edges in such manner as to separate the tabs, at similar ends, from the body of the card and to provide the tabs, except the outermost tabs, with opposed approximately semi-circular cooperating notches in the opposite side edges between which the skeins of yarn are received. The free ends of the tabs are spaced from each other to provide openings 24 through which the skeins, by slightly compressing them, can be inserted in the circular notches in the tabs. The card is provided with crease-lines 26 which extend transversely of the card along the upper edges of the openings 20, or along the bases of the tabs, to facilitate bending the tabs upwardly. The skeins are inserted in position between the tabs while they are in approximately perpendicular relation with the body of the card; and the tabs are held in this relation when the skeins are inserted by apparatus hereinafter to be described.

When the skeins are inserted in position between the tabs and the tabs are subsequently released, they are adapted to reflex by their inherent resiliency into an inclined position with respect to thebody ofthe `eardor 'into some such position as illustrated in Fig. 3 wherein they are inclined approximately 45o with respect to the body of the card. As a result of the inclined position thereof, the tabs are caused to bear down upon the skeins and so to clutch or grip effect. The inclination of the tabs is directed against the direction of pull upon the ends 12 of the yarn of the skeins so that the tabs serve to hold the skeins against withdrawal from the card whenyarn is withdrawn.

After the skeins are applied to the card, a paper band 27 is wrapped around the card and over the skeins and the ends of the band are pasted or otherwise secured together, thus pressing the skeins against and thereby additionally holding the skeins upon the card and also protectin the skeins against soil, and concealing an securing the loose outer ends of the skeins. The band is adapted to be narrower in width than the length of the skeins and is so applied that both ends of the skeins are exposed, whereby the color of the yarns in the skeins can be readily identified. The band also holds the folded card from straightening out.

The tabs on the card are retleXed into and held in approximately perpendicular relation with the body of the card by means of the device illustrated in Fig. 6 for the purpose of receiving the skeins. Said device is claimed in m co-pending application Serial No. 205,168 filed July 12, 1927. Said device comprises a horizontal fiat base 30 which has a plurality of projections 32 upstanding thereabove and arranged in a plurality of transverse lines and spaced apart and so disposed as to be positioned beneath the tabs 18 of the card for the purpose of raising the tabs. The card 14 is adapted to be supported upon a plate 34 which is hinged at 36 with the base plate 30 and is adapted to be moved down upon the base plate by means of a treadle or other device. not shown, connected with a rod 38 which is secured to said hinged plate. The plate may be held normally in elevated position above the base plate by means of a spring or other suitable means, not necessarily illustrated. Said plate 34 is provided with transverselyelongated slots or openings 40 therein through which said projections 32 are adapted to eX- tend when the hinged plate is moved down upon the base plate. `A thin and stiff cover plate 42 is secured at its rear edge to the hinged plate and overlies said plate and is spaced above sufficiently to permit the insertion of a card 14 between the two plates. The plate 42 is held in the aforesaid relation by end and rear spacer plates 44 which are disposed between the cover plate and the hinged plate and serve to locate the card 14 accuratethem with substantial ly in provided with transverselyv elongated slots or-openings-46 therein which areopen at the front edge of the plate and overlieand are substantially larger in all dimensions than the slots 40 in the hinged Vplatel34.`

In use, the card 14 is adapted to be received between the plates 34 and 42 to occupy the position illustrated in Fig. 7. The hinged plate is then moved down into contact with the base plate 30 as shown in Fig. 8. As a resultv of such movement, the projections, 32 come into engagementwith the tabs 18 of the plate 14 and raise them into aperpendicular position as illustrated in Fig. 9 and hold them in such position for so long as the hinged plate is maintained depressed. The skeins are then placed between the upstanding tabs as above described and the hinged plate is then released. When the tabs clear the projections 32 they partially return to their original position and assume an inclined position with respect to the card 14 and 4 and thus grip the skeins and hold them in such position. The illed cards can then be withdrawn from the hinged plate and folded about the line 16 and have the band 26 applied thereto to form the completed package.

The term yarn is also intended to include thread and other similar material of whatever fibres composed.

I claim:

1. A yarn package comprising a card, a plurality of skeins of yarn disposed on said card in parallel order and each lying entirely on one face of the card with the inner ends of the yarn extended all in the same direction through and beyond the ends of the skeins, the skeins being of the tubular type wherein the yarn is withdrawn from the skein from the inside through one end thereof and wherein the skein is so arranged that it holds its shape until practically all of the yarn has been withdrawn, and an enc-losing band passed about said card and said skeins and overlying said skeins and pressing them upon said card, both ends of each of said skeins being extended in opposite directions beyond the opposite side edges of the band.

2. A yarn package comp-rising a card folded in the middle and reexed against itself, a plurality of skeins of yarn each lying entirely on one face of the card, said skeins being disposed in parallel relation on the opposite faces of said reflexed card, the skeins being of the tubular type wherein the yarn is withdrawn from the skein from the inside through one end thereof and wherein the skein is so arranged that it holds its shape until practically all of the yarn has been withdrawn, and a band passed about said card and the skeins of yarn thereon and enclosing and retaining said skeins in the aforesaid relation and also retaining said card in retlexed condition, said band being narrower as illustrated in Figs. 3

position therebetween. Said plate`42isA than the length of said skeins and disposed so that both ends of each skein is exposed on the opposite side edges of the band.

A yarn packagecomprising a card, a skein of yarn thereon, the skeins being of the tubular type wherein the yarn is withdrawn from the skein from the insidethrough one end thereof and wherein the skein is so arranged that it holds its shape until practically all of the yarn has been withdrawn, and means carried by said card gripping the opposed sides only of said skein intermediate the ends thereof for holding it against displacement on said card.

4. A yarn package comprising a card, a skein of arn conta-ined entirely on one face thereon having the inner end of the yarn extended through one end of t-he skein by which the yarn in the inside of the skein is adapted to be withdrawn from that end, and. opposed skein holding means carried by the card and adapted to grip opposite sides of the skein and to hold it on the card against endwise displacing forces. I

5. A yarn package having a skein of yarn thereon and opposed upstanding tabs dis` posed on opposite sides of and in gripping engagement with opposed faces of said skein.

6. A yarn package having ay skein of yarn thereon, opposed upstanding tabs disposed on opposite sides of and in gripping engagement with opposed faces of said skein, said tabs being inclined in the direction of the length of the skein whereby to grip the skein and hold it against longitudinallyapplied displacing force.

7. A yarn package comprising a card, a skein of yarn disposed thereon, and upstanding tabs carried by the card at the ends of the skein and lying on opposite sides of said skein and having opposed notches therein in which said skein is received, the free ends of said tabs being spaced apart to provide openings for the insertion of the skein into position between said tabs.

8. A yarn package comprising a card, a .skein ofyarn disposed thereon, and upstanding tabs carried by the card at the ends of the skein and lying on opposite sides of said skein and having opposed notches therein in which said skein is received, the free ends of said tabs being spaced apart to provide openings for the insertion of the skein into position between said tabs, said tabs being inclined in the direction of the length of said skein and the yarn in said skein characterized by having the yarn thereof withdrawn from the end of the skein against the inclination of said tabs.

9. A yarn package comprising a card having a plurality of rows of upstanding tabs thereon formed with opposed notches therein, skeins of yarn disposed on .said card between said tabs and occupying the opposed notches thereof, said skeins characterized by having the yarns thereof withdrawn from the ends of the skeins and said tabs characterizedby being inclined in the direction of the length of said skeins and away from the ends from which yarn is adapted to be withdrawn, and a band wrapped about said card and the skeins and overlying said skeins and the tabs.

10. -A package for holding a skein of arn comprising a card having spaced sets o opposed tabs, each set being provided with a skein-recess therebetween and an entrance to said recess.

11. A holder for a skein of yarn com rising a card havin a plurality of sets o upstanding tabs, eac i set of tabs being provided with a skein recess therebetween and an entrance to said recess, said tabs being upstanding from said card and being inclined in the same direction away from the vertical.

12. A package 'adapted to hold a plurality of skeins of yarn comprising a card having two parallel transverse lines of spaced and longitudinally aligned perforations therethrough, said card being slitted along the bottom edges of said lines of perforations so that the sl1t runs into the bottoms of the erforations and said card having fol ing creases at the to edges of said lines of perforations, said slit lines providing a plurality of tabs between the perforations and said crease lines providing for lines of fold for said tabs.

13. A holder for a skein of yarn comprising a card having a pair of upstanding opposed tabs provided with opposed notches 1n adjacent faces thereof in which the skein is adapted to be received.

- 14. A holder for a skein of yarn compris. ing a card having a pair of upstanding opposed tabs provided with opposed notches in adjacent faces thereof in which the skein is adapted to be received, said tabs bein- *finclined in the direction of the length o? the skein.

15. A holder for a skein of yarn comprising a card having a pair of upstanding opposed tabs provided with opposed notches in adjacent faces thereof in which the skein is adapted to be received, said tabs being inclined in t-he direction of the length of the skein, and the free ends of the tabs being spaced apart to provide an opening communicating with said notches and having dimensions suicient to permit the skein to pass therethrough.

16. The method of forming a package adapted to hold skeins of yarn whlch consists in forming t-wo spaced lines of spaced perforations, severing the material between the perforations at one side only whereby to form tabs which are connected at their similar ends to the card, reflexing said tabs in the same direction into approximately perpendicular relation with the card, introducing 10 card having a plurality of spaced rows of tabs raising the tabs into ap roximetely perpendicular relation with the dy of the card and holding them in such position, inserting skeins of yarn between the tabs of the rows to be enga ed and gripped by the tabs, and subsequent y releasing the holding pressure on said tabs.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specication.

JOHN L. BARRY. 

